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Bellefonte, Pa., June 26, 1891.
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Democratic County Committee, 1891 |
W. 8. Galbraith
. Joseph Wise
. John Dunlap
.. John T. Lee
... H. A. Moore
. A. M. Butler
Bellefonte, No W.
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Centre Hall Borough.
Howard Borough.......
Milesburg Borough
Milheim Borough... .... A.C. Musser
Philipsburg, 1st W.. James A. Lukens
2d W.. «ee C. A. Faulkner
. A J Gorton
Bi d ugene Meeker
Benner Harvey Benner
Boggs, ... Philip Confer
* wT, FF. Adams }
” .. G. H. Leyman |
.... W. H. Mokle
... James Foster
Qitin.....0 "NX. J. McCloskey |
Ferguson, E. P.... ... Daniel Dreibelbis |
G lg W.P oe Geo YW: Kelopline
14} S.P. .. Chas. W. Fisher
Eee N.P James P. Grove
saac M, Orndorf
Hgines, E. P..
Pa Wp Geo. B. Shaffer
Haltmoo 1
Harris... J. W. Keller
Hpward.. T. Leathers
Huston... nl 8 Henry Hale
fberty.. -. Alfred Bitner
arion... ... John J. Shaffer
iles...... ... James P. Frank
Patton. ... P. A. Sellers
Penn...... .. J, C. Stover
Potter, N. . B. W. Smith
“ . P . Jas. B. Spangler
Rush, N. P. Jas. Dumbleton
“SP. Hugh McCann
Binow Shoe, W. P.. Thomas Turbidy
8 4d E.P. ... John 3 Brown
ring, 8. P....... ... Jer onovan
Pring N:P. % Sanes Carson
“ W.P.. .... EB. E, Ardery
Taylor... . W.T. Hoover
Chas. H. Rush
‘Walker D. A. Dietrick
Worth... 0. D. Eberts
: . A. ER, Chairman.
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Veto of the Bill Taxing Unnaturalized
Foreigfiers.
Union..
While we exceedingly regret the
fact that Governor Pattison felt it his
duty to veto the bill taxing unnatural-
ized persons for poor purposes, we
doubly regret that he failed to give
stronger or more conclusive reasons
for his action in this matter. General
ly the Governor's reasons for vetoing
acts of the Legislature are clear-cut,
forcible and convincing. In this in-
stance, if the synopsis we have read
embodies the arguments presented, they
are doubtful, obscure and weak.
His first objection, according to the
report, is that he fears the courts might
-construe the measure to be unconstitu-
+ tional,because it proposes to impose an
“unequal” (as he asserts) tax upon a
certain class of subjects,” or a tax up-
on one class of workingmen that is not
assessed against another. If there
wag any doubt on this point in the
‘Governor's mind, and there seems to
have been, from the way he uses the
words “fear” and “might,” it was his
duty, and would have been policy on
his part, to have resolved it in the in-
terest of local tax-payers as well as of
native and naturalized laborers. There
18 no reason under the sun why an un-
naturalized Hungarian, Italian, Slav
-or native of any other foreign country,
-should be allowed to escape taxation,
‘while the very clothes on the backs of
itheir naturalized brothers,andof our own
native workingmen, are subject to seiz-
-ure by the tax gatherer: There is no
»reason in, nor excuse for, a policy that
will allow the rag-tag and bob-tail of
European population to enjoy the bene-
fits derived from our form of govern-
ment without taxation, while at the
-same time it imposes burdensome aud
unequal taxes upon foreigners who
come here to become citizens, as well as
.tpon every native of the country, no
matter what may be his circumstance
or condition.
‘iThe “fear” the Governor may have
had, that the tax proposed would be
4 ‘unequal’ onthe “same class of sub-
jects,” and therefore unconstitutional, is
certainly as baseless as any fear could
“be. Had this bill been allowed tob.-
come a law it would have been the only
““tequal’’ tax measure u pon our statute
books. It imposed precisely the same
amount of tax upon every person of
the claes it referred to, no matter in
what. city, county, horough or town-
8hip heresided. It was not like the
law thattaxes native or naturalized
workmen, as a class, within this State,
five mills in one district,ten in another,
and twenty in another, subject simply
40 the whims of the assessor, or the
necessities of the surroundings,—a law
that secures.no equality of taxation.
But it was equal upon every unnatur-
alized person, made so by its provi.
sions, and consequently there was no
inequality about it. So that this
point in the Governor's objections was
without any foundation whatever, un-
less it was founded upon prejudice that
Opposes any innovation on our present
unequal, unjust and oppressive tax sys
tem.
Waving all other matters relating
to the ‘“‘constitutionality” of the bill,
we fail to understand how the Govern.
or could construe any measure to be
unconstitutional that applied only to
persons owing no allegiance to the con-
stitution, and to whom that instrument
does not refer, and whose rights, priv-
iliges or benefits are nowhere recog
nized by it. On this point the veto
leaves us entirely in the dark.
As to the other objection to the bills
EDITOR |
.. E. M.Griest |
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that it was wrong in principle to at-
tempt the collection of a tax through
an employer, we need only refer the
Governor to his own recognition of this
very principle in his approval ot the
checkweighman’s bill, which he sign-
ed without hesitation.
By that measure the operator is
authorized and required to deduct a
certain per cent monthly of the earn-
ings of each miner, whether native,
naturalized or wnnaturalized, for the
purpose of paying a checkweighman.
By the bill vetoed, the operator would
have deducted 25cts. per month from
the earnings of unnaturalized em-
ployees for the ‘benefit of the poor
fund, of which these unnaturalized
laborers.are now by far the largest
beneficiaries.
If it was right to deduct checkweigh-
men’s fees from the earnings of our
native and naturalized workingmen,
it certainly could not be wrong to de-
duct a mite for poor purposes, from a
class of unnaturalized persons who as
soon as they earn a few dollars send it
back to Europe, and, then, when they
become indigent, or get injured, are to
be kept by the taxes wrung from our
own overtaxed citizens.
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The Compulsory Edueation Bill Vetoed.
We publish in another column the
reasons given by Governor Parrison
for vetoing the Compulsory Education
Bill, which we think fally sustain his
position. He properly objects to both
the principle of the bill and the man-
ner in which its provisions were drawn
up. The experience of other states, in
his opinion, will not justify Pennsylva-
nia in passing a measure that is not
only unbefitting a few people, but would
be cumbersome and vexatious in its en-
forcement.
Pennsylvania has liberally and am-
ply provided for the education of the
childrea of her citizens. She has estab-
lished one of the best school systems in
the Union. Her people are free to ac-
cept its benefits. Beyond this she can-
not go without adopting the policy of
paternalism, which is as objectionable
in education as it is in the general ad-
ministration of government. There are
parents who are neglectful of their du-
ty to their children in the way of edu-
cation, but if the State is to step in and
correct this remissness, it logically
would have to correct cther lapses of
parental duty which bear upon the
public welfare. It would have to mea-
dle with moral as well as mental train-
ing. In fact the former is the more
important of the two, and yet it is fre-
pear to think that when a child is sent
to school no other culture is required.
The State is not invested with that
fanction of paternity that should step
in and take the place of the parent in
the training of the child, and when it
attempts to perform such a function it
infringes upon the natural right and
personal liberty of its citizens.
In addition to this most essential ob-
jection, going to the very basis of free
government, the Governor points out
that the law in question would entail
useless expense upon the tax payers
and complicate the work of school
boards with harrassing duties and vex-
atious litigation.
A dispatch from Washington
says that the Treasurer's statement is-
sued on the 18th, shows that the cash
balance is $44,415,000, of which $22,
029,000 is on deposit with National
banks, and $20,250,000 is in fractional
silver, deducting whichZitems the net
cash balance is but $1,236,000, which
is the lowest figure yet reached.
Where, ob, where is that surplus?
The Billion Dollar Congress has so
completely wiped it out that itis no
longer visible to the naked eye. It
can scarcely be seen with a magnifying
glass.
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A Call to the Democratic Societies,
A circular from JouN D. Wormax,
Secretary of the Democratic Societies
and Clubs of Pennsylvania, instructs
them to forward, at once,to his address
at the United States hotel, Harrisburg,
the names and addresses of their office-
ers for 1891. He states in his circular
that arrangements are being made and
perfected for the meeting of the Gen-
eral Assembly of the Democratic Socie-
ties at Pittsburg, in September next.
Each Democratic society or club is
entitled to one deputy-at-large and one
for each twenty-five members. Their
names and credentials, with addresses,
are tobe forwarded to the above ad-
dress as soon as they are elected or
appointed.
The Societies should heed this call
and prepare for the action by which
they can be of so much service to their
party and to the country. These or-
ganizations have become important
agencies in the politics of these times,
and the future good they may do by
proper exertion can be made to exceed
that which they have done in the past.
They should grow up in all parts of
the country, and it should be made the
duty of young and active Democrats to
associate themseives with them. In the
country districts they should begin this
work as soon as the crops are off.
The election next fall will be an im-
portant one,in that 1t will immediately
precede the Presidential election. All
things point to a great victory for the
Democracy and honest government 1n
1892, and these encouraging indications
will be realized if the Democrats do
their duty, and especially if the young
Democrats throw themselves enthu-
siastically into the work. Organiza
tion is the first requisite of a political
victory, and the Societies offer the best
means of organization.
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Two Important Bills Signed.
The Governor has signed both the
Baker Ballot Bill and the Constitution-
al Convention Bill. These measures
are related to the movement for a re-
formed ballot system, but they are by
no means what the people wanted and
what they had a right to have. Still
they are the best of the kind that the
recent Legislature was willing to grant,
and as such the Governor has put his
signature to them. He would have
preferred something better, but he and
the people must take what the Repub-
lican majority has been pleased to give
them,
The Baker Bill, as original designed,
vas a good measure intended to give
the State a fair and honest election
eystem. It was drawn strictly on the
Australian plan which,wherever it has
been tried, has reformed the ballot.
But its thorough prevention of bribery
and intimidation did not suit the mana-
gers of Republican politics in this State
and they effected such alterations as
will admit of unfair and corrupt prac-
tices to some extent.
Nevertheless while the new ballot
law is not such an improvement on the
present way of conducting elections as
could be asked for, it works great
changes. The method of voting in
Pennsylvania, in vogue for so many
years, after the 1st of next March will
be abolished, and in all probability
forever.
With the basis of a perfect electoral
law something has been established,
and the deficiencies which exist can be
corrected in the future, provided the
voters have sufficient discretion to elect
Legislatures that will carry out their
wishes.
The Constitutional Convention bill
approved by the Governor, merely al-
| lows the people of the State an oppor-
quently overlooked by those who ap-:
tunity to pass upon the subject of call-
ing a convention at the November elec-
tion. As thereseems to be a preponder-
ance of opinion in favor {of the propos-
edjconvention, the proposition wiil pro-
bably be approved, and the convention
will meet in Harrisburg in December,
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An Erroneous View of the Future.
CHAUNCEY DEPEW is a smart lawyer,
au accomplished after-dinner orator,
and has some ability in running a rail-
road, but he is deficient in his com-
prehension of the future. He is away
off in his foresight as to who will be
regarded by future generations as the
greatest among the early fathers of the
Republic. Thus, in a recent speech, he
said:
“Most reputations are forgotten by the
-succeeding generation, and few survive
a century. In our thousandth year as
a nation the only statesmen or soldiers
of our first hundred years whose names
will decorate the celebration, will be
Washington and Hamilton for the be-
ginning, Webster for the middle period,
and Lincoln and Grant for the close.”
Mr. Depew displayed a remarkable
want of judgment in owitting JEFrER-
soN from this list, and substituting
HamivroN in his place. The greenest
echool boy will tell him that the author
of the Declaration of Independence will
never be forgotten by the American
people in all the ages that are to come.
Ask the average class of citizens what
they know about JEFrErson and Hair
TON. There are very few who will not
tell you that they know that JEFrer-
SON wrote the great American Bill of
Rights upon which is based the in-
dependence of the American people,
and that with him originated the Dem-
ocratic doctrines upon which is found-
ed the free character ot our political
institutions. This is a common knowl-
edge of the people. But what do they
know about Hamirrox ? Scarcely more
than his name. Comparatively few
present fiscal system. That was the
principal incident of hie political ex-
istence, and, in fact, the only one that
has survived him. His idea of an aris-
tocratic form of government, luckily for
the American people, was not adopted.
It would have made the Republic some-
thing of an oligarchy.
scheme of democracy was more suit-
able to the instinct and sentiment of a
free people, and fortunately it crowd.
ed out the Hamiltonian design of an
know that he was the author of our !
JEFFERSON'S
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American aristocracy.
Such being the tacts, is it likely that
Hayton will be remembered longer
than JEEFERSON by the American peo-
ple?—that “in our thousandth year as a
nation” the unsuccessful projector of a
centralized and aristocrattec form of
government will be held in the remem.
berance of Americans while the author
of the Declaration of Independence aud
the originator of the democratic prin-
ciple in our political institutions, shall
be forgotten? HayiLtox deserves some
credit for placing the financial system
of the government on a firm basis; but
what are financial interests compared
to the vital principle of democracy
which JerFersoN's doctrine imparted to
our government, and without which it
; would not be a government of the peo-
ple? ;
I ET.
Singular Patriotism.
The Ohio Republican platform, on
which McKINLEY has been nominated
for Governor, starts out with a rehash
of the assertion of its “devotion to the
patriotic doctrine of protection,” and
an indorsement of the McKinley bill.
But the document fails to show in
what way the imposition of a heavy
and unnecessary tax on the people is
patriotic. It fails to explain how pa-
triotism can be found in making the
large mass of consumers pay for the
benefit ofa limited number of protect.
ed producers. Such patriotism is of a
kind that is not appreciated by the
people
All claeses are by this time fully con-
vinced that tariff duties are a tax on
consumers paid for the profit of the
manufacturer, and that when they go
beyond the actual necessities of reven-
ue they are an injustice and an oppres-
sion. Something may be given to en-
courage struggling industries, but after
they are once fully established tariff
bounties help to develope them into
monopolies.
The effect of the repeal of the duty
on sugar illustrates the burden on
the people that is maintained by the
“patriotic” principle of protection.
Since the tariff duty was removed and
the principle of free trade adopted
with respect to sugar, every household
has been benefited to the extent of two
cents a pound in the price of that
necessary article.
It is surprising that no mention of
Reciprocity is made in the Ohio plat:
form, Has the party already dropped
BraiNe's pet project? Bat, indeed,
consistency required that in endorsing
KcKiNLEY's monopoly policy BLAINE's
free trade should be dropped, In nom-
inating McKINLEY it was eminently
fitting that there should be an endorse-
ment of a policy that taxes the many
for the benefit of the few, but it is
offensive to common sense to call it
patriotic. :
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Apportionment Bills Vetoed.
The veto of the congressional and
legislative apportionment bills passed
by the recent Legislature, which
took place this week, was the best
treatment that could have been given
them. They were unfair and irregular
in the division of the districts, designed
in a partisan spirit, hastily and crudely
gotten up, and passed in direct con-
travention to constitutional require-
ments. They were vetoed with the ex-
pectation that when a Legislature is
elected that will have some regard tor
fairness in apportioning the districts, it
will pass apportionment bills that will
not be a disgrace to the State.
The Judicial Apportionment Bill Ve-
toed.
The Bill readjusting the Judicial Dis-
tricts of the State also got a black eye
from the Governor, and it deserved all
it got. Itcreated unnecessary districts
in some instances, made objectionable
combinations in others, increased the
number of Judges when sound pol-
icy should require its reduction, and
seems to have been designed to give the
Judges as little work as possible for the
amount of money they get from the
State. The veto message isa very able
document, full of cogent and convine-
ing reasons for the executive objection,
and we are sorry that we have not room
in this issue for its insertion.
Correct and Honest Registration.
The Harrisburg Patriot, 1n its oppo-
sition to the new registry law, the ob-
ject of which is to remedy the evil of
careless aud dishonest registration of
voters, complains of the cost that will
be incurred in making the registries as
required by the new law. There
should be no additional expense, of any
account. This, however, will in a
large measure depend upon how the
officials who shall have the work in
hand will understand and do their du-
ty in the premises. But should the
| cost be counted when fair and honest
voting is the question? It may cost
, Franklin county, as the Patriot says,
from $700 to $1000 more this year to
get its voters correctly registered, but
when such a registration shall preyent
illegal and improper voting, could that
amount of money be used for a better
purpose ?
Until the Patriot can show that the
new registry law will not prodace the
intended effect, its carping about che
cost is equivalent to saying that honest
elections are not worth the money that
may be necessarily expended in secur-
ing them. This is the argument of
those who oppose a reform ballot sys-
tem. They represent that the require-
meats of the Australian ballot would
increase the cost of our elections, ig—
noring the fact that electoral abuses
have cost the State millions by sab.
jecting its government to the control of
plundering bosses and ringsters.
The attitude of opposition which the
Patriot has assumed is carrying it to
some very questionable conclusions.
Gov. Pattison’s Reasons.
Why He Could Not Approve the Com-
pulsory Education Bill.
In vetoing the bill entitled ‘an act to
provide for the attendance of children at
the schools of this commonwealth, and a
supervisory board of education,” Gov-
ernor Pattison says :
This legislation is the first step taken
by our commonwealth in the direction
of compulsory education. That feature
of a common school system involves
serious political, educational and social
problems. They have not yet been de-
finitely or satisfactorily solved by the
experience of other states. In grappling
with them, therefore, it is needful that
sure ground should be occupied, in order
that it may be successfully maintained.
The state has provided, with increas-
ing liberality, for the education of ail
the children of all its citizens. While it
has furnished the opportunity to all, it
has imposed the obligation of attend-
ance upon none. Free attendance up-
on free schools seems to most befit a
free people. I am well aware of the
necessity claimed to exist for compelling
certain classes of people to avail them-
selves of the opportunities oftered them,
but compulsory education is such an in-
vasion of existing systems in our com-
monwealth that, if it is to be inaugura-
ted, it should be done under the most
favorable circumstances It will ‘not
avail to pass a law of uncertain charcater,
or so widely at variance with the popular
sense of what is just that it shall be a
dead letter on the statute books.
I am of the opinion that the essential
conditions are not to be found in the
bill under review, and I do not believe
in the plan proposed which requires
guardians to send their children or
wards, between six and twelve years of
age, to school,except ‘mental or physical
conditions or other urgent reasons’
excuse,
What are “urgent reasons’’ must be de-
termined by the different school boards,
and it can easily be foreseen that the in-
terpretation of these important qualify-
ing words will vary widely in different,
communities and in ditferent school
boards. There is an uncertainty which
should not exist in so important a law.
Moreover the act makes no allowance or
provision for the numerous class of per-
sons who may see fit to educate children
in their own homes, which is certainly
not an evil nor an occasion for sound
objection. A bill which will inflict
penalties upon these citizens is highly
objectionable, whatever other merits it
| may possess.
The plan by which this bill proposes
to enforce compulsory education is cum-
bersome and vexatious, and may, in the
end, entail enormous expense upon the
school districts of the commonwealth.
All children of the years prescribed in
the act are to be assessed, their names
returned to the county commissioners
and by them certified to the different
schools boards ; the secretary of the
school board must return them to the
district school teacher ; he or she, in re-
turn, must report back to the school
board the names of all the children in
their school districts who shall “appear
to be celinquent.” This labor will only
be second in its extent to that of the sec-
retary of each school board, who is charg-
ed with the duty of inquiring into and
prosecuting every case of delinquency.
His search and prosecutions resulting
from the inquiry, if not thorough, will
practically render the whole system abor-
tive. If his labor be prosecuted with
industry and zeal,each school board will
find iteelf involved in a large number of
suits and prosecutions, and then, if be-
fore the committing magistrate shall be
established the poverty, “or other satis-
factory excuses” of the parents, all the
expenses of the litigation are to be sad-
dled on the school districts. In view of
the readiness of the ordinary magistrate
to entertain litigation when the costs of
the same are to be paid out of some pub-
lic fund, it ean easily be imagined that
this system will be the fruitful source of
grave public abuses. I can discerz no
promise of relief from these difficulties
In the proposition to create a new state
board. outside of the school department,
to formulate “rules and regulations’ !
which couid av best have no binding |
authority whatever upon the school i
boards and the controllers. In the full |
development of our educational system
it may be that the commonwealth will .
find it salutary to establish some system :
of compulsory education, but I am confi- |
dent that its inauguration upon the con-
ditions prescribed in this bill would be
of no substantial public advantage, and
might work most serious evil to the very
cause in behalf of which it is invoked.
ADDITiONAL LOCALS.
WaY A NEW TRIAL WAS ASKED,—-
As some of our reader may take an in-
trest in the reasons why another and
third trial was asked for in the case of
young Cleary convicted of murder at
Lock Haven, we give them as follows:
First, Josiah Candor, one of the ;
jurors before whom the cause was tried, |
said before the jurors were summoned, i
in the presence of witnesses, that the i
defendant ( Cleary ) was guilty and that ;
he would be hung, of which statement
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the defeniant had no knowledge uuti
after the trial.
Second. That the jurors were not
kept separate and apart from the other
guests of the hotel at whic “tney were
kept during the trial, as required by
law.
Third. That during the progress of
the trial the jurors were furmshed with
intoxicating liquors at the hotel where
they boarded. :
Fourth. That members of the jury
held conversations with thetipstaves who
bad them in charge after the Court had
delivered its charge to them, and before
they had agreed upon their verdict,other
than toask them whether they had
agreed.
THE SUICIDE oF JEssIE RICHARDS .—
We last week made a brief note of the
suicide of Jessie Richards, a young man
of Philipsburg, which happened in
Wheeling, West Virginia, where he
had recently gone and appears to have
been connected with one of the newspaper
and also taught typewriting. He was
the son of the late Dr. John C. Rich-
ards, of Philipsburg, and was an exem-
plary and promising young man. The
following account of the tragedy was
telegraphed from Wheeling, under date
of June 14th:
A few minutes after two o’clock yes-
terday afternoon the inmates of Mrs. A.
I. Lang’s boarding house, at the old
Grant House, No. 1012 Main St., were
startled by hearing a revolver shot, fol-
lowed almost immediately by two
others. At first it was thought that
some one next door was shooting rats,
but a very brief examination showed
that this was not the case,and there was
a suspicion that the shots came from
some place in the interior of the house.
The door of the bedroom occupied by
Jessie Richards was forced open, when
a horrible scene presented itself. Rich-
ards was lying on the west side of the
room, a couple of feet north of the door
through which an entrance. had been
effected, his body being partially sup-
ported by a chair and waste water jar,
which stood by the wall. He was part-
ly undressed and his clothing was satur-
ated with blood. When the body was
examined it was found that the throat
had beer cut from a point near the left
ear around to the vicinity of the jugu-
lar vein on the right side; all the great
blood vessels, the wind pipe and the gul-
let being either completely or partly sev-
ered.
An examination of the room seemed
to indicate that Richards had been en-
gaged in looking over his statements
and accounts. Without removing his
papers he took an old-fashioned four
barrelled pistol of Remington make and
Elliot pattern and standing “before the
wirror in the dresser he placed the muz-
zlg to his head just below the right ear
and fired. The shot bad little or no ef-
fect and two more were fired in quick
succession, all three of; them entering
within a space of two inches square,
Discouraged by the slight effect produc-
ed and evidently. knowing that the
house would be roused by the shots, he
dropped the pistol and taking a razor
from an upper bureau drawer he crossed
to the west side of the room and there
leaning over the waste jar he made a
swipe at his throat with his right hand.
The blade of the razor struck his chin
on the left side, cutting a gash about an
inch and a half long te the bone, but of
course inflicting an inconsequent wound.
Maintaining his position, the desperate
man made another and more powerful
stroke with the weapon, the keen blade
of which severed the flesh and organs of
the throat clear through almost to the
vertebra column, half severing his head
from his shoulders. The razor dropped
from his grasp into the waste water jar
and Richards fell forward in the position
in which he was found.
The body arrived at Philipsburg last
Monday morning. It was taken to un-
dertakers Haworth & Bro’s establish-
ment and examined, and then removed
to the residence of his mother. The
Mountain Wheel Club, of which the de-
ceased was a member, took charge of the
funeral arrangements. The pall bearers
were wheelmen H. McD. Lorain, Harry
L. Carlisle, A. V. Hoyt, Fred C. Todd,
Jno. T. Fryberger and Nelson N. Davis.
The funeral took place on Tuesday, at.
10 o’clock a. m. Rev. Edzar F. John-
ston, of the Preysbyterian church, held
funeral services at the house, and spoke:
very feelingly of the young man’s spot-
less life and shocking death, and at the
interment services ;in the cemetery de-
livered a very touching prayer.
THE COLLEGE APPROPRIATION BILL
SieNED.—Last Friday the Governor
signed the bill making an appropriation
of $150,500 to the Pennsylvania State
College. Most of this will be used in
enlarging the department and erecting
the building for teaching the mechanic
arts. This will be one of the great fea-
tures of the College, and it is upon such
technical lines as this that it is taking
the lead among .the collegiate institu-
tions of the country and gaining a Eu-
ropean as well as an American reputa-
tion.
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